It's Derby Week! But Who Was the Fastest Horse?

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00:00This week's Fastest Horse of the Week is brought to you by Audible, one of those fastest sires

00:08at Windstar Farm.

00:09Audible had two black-type winners over the weekend.

00:12Dee Regresso won the $100,000 Honey Rider stakes at Gulfstream Park, and MyMainSqueeze

00:19became his newest graded stakes winner when she scored an upset win in the $600,000 Grade

00:26to 8 Bells stakes on Kentucky Derby Weekend.

00:30Audible is the leading second crop sire, this is a nice super effective by the way, in earnings,

00:37black-type winners, graded stakes winners, and wins.

00:42And Audible stands at Windstar for a fee of only $15,000.

00:47Now Fastest Horse of the Week, not surprisingly, came on Kentucky Derby Weekend on Friday on

00:53Oaks Day in the Alley Sheba for Older Horses, worth $1,000,000.

00:58It was First Mission who recorded a buyer's speed figure of 106, bouncing back from a

01:04sort of a puzzling defeat in the Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park.

01:09First Mission ran down yet another one of those seemingly overachieving Japanese horses,

01:14T.O.'s Saint Denis, who spurted away to a huge lead on the backstretch.

01:19First Mission had the tactical speed to sit right behind him and ran him down to a nice

01:24buyer's speed figure, career-high buyer.

01:27For the Fastest Horse of the Week, First Mission from the Brad Fox Production.